from McAfee criminology report 2007

• There is a growing threat to national security from cyber crime activities as web espionage becomes more advanced.
• There is an increasing thread to online services because of the growth in the sophistication of attack techniques. Social engineering, for example, is now used in conjunction with phishing techniques, making the situation even more complex and threatening the confidence of the e-user and especially the new e-users.
• We are facing the emergence of a refining market of software vulnerabilities. This market is legal but also dangerously illegal. Critical government infrastructure networks are menaced. The U.S. government has already established a SWAT team (Special Weapons And Tactics) called Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to cope the problem. Other countries such Australia are reinforcing their defences spending around 70millionA$.